Thinking about her elder brother's affairs, she has been worried for so many days.

Now that her elder brother is still hiding it from her, she simply stops thinking about it.

After changing clothes and lying on the bed, Zhu Weidong said yesterday that he was a little busy and could not call every day, and the phone was not in his dormitory, so if he could not call before dinner, he would not call that day, so he asked her not to wait any longer.

Winter came in a blink of an eye, and my daughter was already one month old. Zhu Weidong had not been back. Since he moved to another place, he did not call back often. At the beginning, the work there was very busy, and people were transferred there temporarily. They were not familiar with the work, so many problems arose. Since Zhu Weidong went there, he had been working on the construction site, getting up early and going to bed late every day. The weather was bad, with mostly windy and sandy weather. When a sandstorm came, the power and telephone lines would be cut off, and we could not contact the outside world for many days.

Zhu Weidong didn't say anything. It was Ji Ling who was concerned about his situation and asked about it privately. She had lived another life and was familiar with the situation there. Zhu Weidong rarely called her, so she became even more worried.

Zhu Weidong didn't call Niu Niu on the 100th day after her death. He called her the next day and his voice was full of apologies.

How could Ji Ling care? She told him to take good care of himself over there. It was already winter in the capital, and it was even colder in the northwest.

After hanging up the phone, Ji Ling turned to Zhu Yaowu and smiled, "Do I look good in pretending?"

Zhu Yaowu rolled his eyes. "It's just a casual chat. What can my brother find out?"

Ji Ling raised her chin, "You don't understand this. You never lied to your elder brother and never hid anything from him. It's rare that you didn't tell him that we were going to visit him."

"I don't believe it. You really haven't hidden anything from my elder brother?" "If I don't admit it, what can you do to me?"

"See, women are full of lies."

Mrs. Zhu looked at the two bickering and just shook her head and smiled, "Have you prepared everything? Check carefully, bring more food and warm clothes. It's cold and snowy over there, and most of the places are deserted. Sometimes you have to live in the wild, so think about everything you need."

"Don't worry, grandma. Everything is ready. I even put a gas stove in the trunk. If there are really no houses on the road, we can cook for ourselves." Zhu Yaowu sat over and teased Niuniu in grandma's arms. "There are four of us on the road. My sister-in-law and Wang Sanmei can cook. Heping and I will take turns driving. We will arrive in ten days or half a month."

"That's fine. Don't rush. Safety comes first." Mrs. Zhu warned.

Ji Ling wanted to go visit her relatives. She had thought about it before the winter vacation, so she made arrangements immediately after the vacation started.

Zhu's family supported it. They wanted to give Zhu Weidong a surprise, and his family members agreed.

But if she left, Niu Niu would have to eat milk powder. Ji Ling knew that this was unfair to her daughter, and she had been struggling with this for a long time. Seeing the distress in her heart, Kong Siya talked to her and said that her family understood her. Only then did she let go of the burden and guilt in her heart and decided to go visit her relatives.

The next day, Ji Ling set out on the journey. She breastfed her daughter for the last time, hugged her and kissed her again and again, before leaving reluctantly.

But as soon as everyone got in the car and drove out of the capital, Ji Ling immediately came back to life as if she had been injected with chicken blood.

Ji Ling and Wang Sanmei sat in the back, holding a map and looking at the route they had planned previously.

"If we follow our planned route, walking 300 kilometers a day, it will take at least a week. If the road is difficult to walk on, it will be even slower. It will take us at least ten days to get there. If we go to the place where they are building a railway now, it will take about half a month." After Ji Ling finished calculating, she leaned back on the quilt. In order to sit more comfortably in the car, she brought a small quilt. She put a package in the leg space and covered it with a quilt so that she could half-lying down with her legs folded.

Wang Sanmei put the map away and said, "Walk slowly, don't rush. I'm just worried that you won't be able to answer your brother-in-law's phone call home. Will he guess that you're visiting him?"

Wang Sanmei's eyes flickered. "Brother Ji hasn't come here since he went back to his hometown last time. The factory should be very busy, right?"

"We are developing new products, including shampoo and bath gel, as well as laundry detergent and powder. We also need to promote the perfume. I have already mailed the bottles back. It should be out in the next few days. I don't know what it will look like. I can only wait until I get back to see the product."

"It's true that I'm very busy." Wang Sanmei nodded. She was afraid that someone would notice something, so she didn't dare to ask any more questions.

After she agreed to be Ji Jianhua's girlfriend last time, Ji Jianhua only wrote to her, and she left her school phone number in her reply.

Ji Jianhua rarely calls me. He has only called me three times this semester.

All the virgin boyfriends and girlfriends in the school were in pairs, so Wang Sanmei naturally trusted them when she saw them.

She didn't dare ask Ji Jianhua why he called so seldom, for fear that he would think she was being willful. Moreover, every time Ji Jianhua called, he would ask about her and even mailed her a new cotton-padded jacket, but he never talked about his own affairs.

Now that she knew he was very busy and didn't mean to ignore her, she felt relieved.

On the first day we left the capital, the road was easy to drive on and we found a hotel to stay in at night.

The hotel was run by a private family and was very simple. Zhu Yaowu and Zhu Heping were very picky and they disliked it, but they had no other place to stay so they had no choice but to stay there.

As for food, I ordered noodles with gravy.

Ji Ling and Wang Sanmei also felt it was dirty. Fortunately, Ji Ling had been prepared and brought her own bed sheets, which she also delivered to Zhu Yaowu and the others.

The bed sheet was very big, so I used half of it as a bed and the other half as a cover. I then covered myself with the quilt from the guesthouse and spent the night like that in my clothes.

The next day, the four of them got up early and continued their journey, hoping to pass by a nice place to eat. However, after driving for a whole morning, they found that the road was getting more and more remote and there was no place to eat.

In the end, I ate the snacks I brought from home. In the afternoon, it became difficult to walk. The car was bumpy. Not to mention eating, I almost vomited the food I had eaten in the morning.

The Zhu Yaowu brothers were fine. Seeing that Ji Ling and Wang Sanmei looked unhappy, they happened to be passing by a county town. It was just after two o'clock in the afternoon, so they looked for a place to rest.

The days that followed were sometimes good and sometimes bad. By the time they reached Gansu, Ji Ling's clothes had become much looser.

She smiled and said, "After giving birth, I couldn't lose weight. Now it's better. It's easier."

Wang Sanmei's absorption ability is stronger than Ji Ling's. She couldn't eat well in the first few days, but she got used to it later, so the weight she lost in the first few days was gained back again.

(End of this chapter)